Fish Night
by Joe Lansdale
Rather more frequently than I’d like, it’s hard to tell whether a story involves time
travel or not. This could just be a ghost fish story, but there are some indications that
the old toothless door-to-door salesman might be traveling back to the time of the early
fish.
Millions and millions of years ago this desert was sea bottom. Maybe even the birthplace
of man. Who knows?
“Fish Night” by Joe Lansdale, in Specter!, edited
by Bill Pronzini (Arbor House, 1982).